10-letter words containing h, a, l, e
- gaultheria — (botany) Any of the genus Gaultheria of evergreen ericaceous shrubs.
- gearwheels — Plural form of gearwheel.
- genethliac — of or relating to birthdays or to the position of the stars at one's birth.
- geothermal — of or relating to the internal heat of the earth.
- ghastliest — Superlative form of ghastly.
- glasshouse — a glassworks.
- glyphosate — a compound, C 3 H 8 NO 5 P, used to kill a wide range of weeds.
- goldthread — a white-flowered plant, Coptis trifolia, of the buttercup family, having a slender, yellow root that is sometimes used as a tonic.
- goliathise — to play Goliath, exaggerate extravagantly
- goliathize — to exaggerate extravagantly
- gonorrheal — Of, pertaining to, or afflicted with gonorrhoea.
- goodlihead — goodness; good appearance
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- gray whale — a grayish-black whalebone whale, Eschrichtius robustus, of the North Pacific, growing to a length of 50 feet (15.2 meters): now rare.
- great helm — helm2 (def 1).
- grey whale — a large N Pacific whalebone whale, Eschrichtius glaucus, that is grey or black with white spots and patches: family Eschrichtidae
- habiliment — Usually, habiliments. clothes or clothing. clothes as worn in a particular profession, way of life, etc.
- habilitate — to clothe or dress.
- habilities — Plural form of hability.
- hack value — Often adduced as the reason or motivation for expending effort toward a seemingly useless goal, the point being that the accomplished goal is a hack. For example, MacLISP had features for reading and printing Roman numerals, which were installed purely for hack value. See display hack for one method of computing hack value, but this cannot really be explained, only experienced. As Louis Armstrong once said when asked to explain jazz: "Man, if you gotta ask you'll never know." (Feminists please note Fats Waller's explanation of rhythm: "Lady, if you got to ask you ain't got it.")
- hackle fly — an artificial fly made with hackles, usually without wings.
- hackleback — shovelnose sturgeon.
- haemocoels — Plural form of haemocoel.
- haemolymph — the blood-like fluid of invertebrates
- haemolyses — Plural form of haemolysis.
- haemolysin — Alternative spelling of hemolysin.
- haemolysis — Alternative spelling of hemolysis.
- haemolytic — of or relating to the disintegration of red blood cells
- haemophile — a haemophilic bacterium
- hailstones — Plural form of hailstone.
- hair slide — a hinged clip with a tortoiseshell, bone, or similar back, used to fasten the hair
- hair style — a style of cutting, arranging, or combing the hair; hairdo; coiffure.
- hairstyles — Plural form of hairstyle.
- halberdier — a soldier, guard, or attendant armed with a halberd.
- halberstam — David, 1934–2007, U.S. writer.
- half eagle — a gold coin of the U.S., discontinued in 1929, equal to five dollars.
- half frame — a photograph taking up half the normal area of a frame on a particular film, taken esp on 35-millimetre film
- half rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- half shell — either of the halves of a double-shelled creature, as of an oyster, clam, or other bivalve mollusk.
- half snipe — jacksnipe (def 1).
- half tiger — a five-rand coin
- half title — Also called bastard title. the first printed page of certain books, appearing after the end papers and before the title page and containing only the title of the book.
- half-alive — having life; living; existing; not dead or lifeless.
- half-arsed — incompetent; inept; badly organized
- half-assed — insufficient or haphazard; not fully planned or developed.
- half-awake — waking; not sleeping.
- half-baked — insufficiently cooked.
- half-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to the offspring of parents of different racial origin, especially the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European descent.
- half-caste — a contemptuous term used to refer to a person of mixed racial or ethnic descent.
- half-dazed — partly dazed or confused